Heartbreaking Revelation Reveals 16-Year-Old Girl’s Final Moments on a Dream Road Trip to See Taylor Swift Concert
By Brett Lackey and Pranav Harish For Daily Mail Australia
14:50 17 Feb 2024, updated 16:40 17 Feb 2024
A teenage girl who died in a horrific car crash during a road trip to see singer Taylor Swift in concert had been listening to the superstar’s music when tragedy struck.
Mieka Pokarier, 16, was killed when the SUV she was travelling in with her mother and sister collided with a semi-trailer near Dubbo about 6pm on Thursday.
The family had been driving to Melbourne from the Gold Coast on the ‘trip of a lifetime’ to see Swift perform on the Australian leg of her Eras tour.
Mieka’s younger sister Freya Pokarier, 10, was seriously injured in the crash on Dunedoo Road, at Ballimore, and was airlifted to Westmead Hospital.
The screen of Mieka’s iPad, which remained eerily unscathed in the crash, shows she had the pop icon’s song ‘All of the Girls You Loved Before’ open in the moments before she died, according to The Daily Telegraph. The song she had been listening to as part of her carefully assembled playlist was recorded during sessions for Swift’s 2019 album Lover, but was only released in March 2023 to mark the global launch of the tour Mieka was so excited to see.
The mother of the two girls, Kim Litchfield, who was driving the SUV, sustained several injuries and was taken to Dubbo Hospital.
The driver of the semi-trailer had minor injuries and was also taken to Dubbo Hospital in a stable condition.